A Jacques Barzun Reader
A Jacques Barzun Reader

Author: Jacques Barzun

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2003-07-08

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 0060935421

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Throughout his career Jacques Barzun, author of the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist From Dawn to Decadence, has always been known as a witty and graceful essayist, one who combines a depth of knowledge and a rare facility with words. Now Michael Murray has carefully selected eighty of Barzun's most inventive, accomplished, and insightful essays, and compiled them in one impressive volume. With subjects ranging from history to baseball to crime novels, A Jacques Barzun Reader is a feast for any reader.

A Company of Readers
A Company of Readers

Author: Wystan Hugh Auden

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0743202627

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A collection of 45 columns and essays by the three eminent writers, originally written for the bulletin of the Readers' Subscription Book Club.

Jacques Barzun
Jacques Barzun

Author: Michael Murray

Publisher: Frederic C. Beil Publisher

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781929490417

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This is the story of the career and ideas of one of the twentieth-century's leading intellectuals. Jacques Barzun was the author of some thirty books of biography, history, and cultural criticism, among them the best-sellers "The House of Intellect," an indictment of governmental and foundation interference with the autonomy of scholars and universities, and "From Dawn to Decadence," an argument that the West was falling into decay and incapacity.

Teacher in America
Teacher in America

Author: Jacques Barzun

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780819154477

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Begin Here
Begin Here

Author: Jacques Barzun

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780226038476

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Criticizes the current educational system, and offers suggestions on curriculum, testing, grading, and teaching methods

Simple & Direct
Simple & Direct

Author: Jacques Barzun

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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A fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one's style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision guide the reader through the technique of making the written word clear and agreeable to read. Exercises, model passages both literary and casual, and hundreds of amusing examples of usage gone wrong show how to choose the right path to self-expression in forceful and distinctive words.

The Culture We Deserve
The Culture We Deserve

Author: Jacques Barzun

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 1989-05

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9780819562371

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The essence of culture is interpenetration. From any part of it the searching eye will discover connections with another part seemingly remote. If from my descriptions the reader finds this wide-angled view sharpened or expanded, my purpose in publishing these pages will have been served.

A Jacques Barzun Reader
A Jacques Barzun Reader

Author: Jacques Barzun

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2003-07-08

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 0060935421

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Throughout his career Jacques Barzun, author of the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist From Dawn to Decadence, has always been known as a witty and graceful essayist, one who combines a depth of knowledge and a rare facility with words. Now Michael Murray has carefully selected eighty of Barzun's most inventive, accomplished, and insightful essays, and compiled them in one impressive volume. With subjects ranging from history to baseball to crime novels, A Jacques Barzun Reader is a feast for any reader.

An Essay on French Verse
An Essay on French Verse

Author: Jacques Barzun

Publisher: New Directions

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9780811211574

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Barzun, Essay on French Verse. From the author of From Dawn to Decadence.